Linda Claudine

I haven't liked to talk about politics on this account. I wanted to have a fun spot for Vikings fans, like me.

Many have been scared of backlash, losing friends or followers... but I am saying clearly:

1 am NOT okay with reckless violence condoned by the Trump Aministration. I am NOT okay with people being murdered in own own communities.

1am NOT okay with people being taken from their homes and families being ripped apart. lam NOT okay with people being denied due process.

Pro Football Hall of Famer John Randle posted a statement about ICE as text overlays on various portraits of himself and I kind of love it

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.

If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

OMG the Cincinnati Children’s hospital Pastor speaks after being detained for 73 days by ICE and he is a legal U.S citizen & they knew it when they took him & they’ve known it for all 73 days! He said the there are a lot of people in there that are U.S citizens & no crimes ever!

Heartbreaking. Many DACA are veterans and some have already been deported.

DHS takes credit for crime being down in Chicago. Data shows that was happening before they arrived. Immigration officials on Tuesday said a drop in crime numbers was thanks to their work. Police data show the decrease was taking place before federal agents arrived in the city.

Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer.

He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

TRUMP: You have to bring in talent

INGRAHAM: Well, we have plenty of talented people in America


TRUMP: No you don't. No.


INGRAHAM: We don't have talented people here?

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

(Published October)

Here's a recording of the pilot of C-GZPT, a Cirrus SR22, tracing the Jays logo over Nova Scotia

Congratulations to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It also demonstrates the fairness of the prize, as Mary Brunkow is a Senior Program Manager (not a professor) at the @isbscience.org
hood.isbscience.org/people/mary-...

Great synopsis, with sources, of Epstein, Maxwell, et al., and the underpinnings of their relationship and, especially, the Maxwells, both father & daughter, with more pieces forthcoming from Lance.

The United States should not wage war against Iran.

Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war.

This is a horrific war of choice.

I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

Duckworth statement on Trump’s strikes against Iran nuclear sites.

Duckworth statement on Trump’s strikes against Iran nuclear sites.

Trump bombing Iran was illegal and unjustified.

I ran for Congress to make sure our leaders consider the true costs of war.

And I will be in the Senate, standing on my titanium legs, demanding answers from Trump.

My statement:

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders response to Trump’s attack on iran

Looks like Elon lost bigly

Just a straight-up, brazen, demonstrable lie from the Vice-President of the United States. They have no shame and they seem to be able to get away with it too.

Abrego Garcia is not a ‘convicted MS-13 gang member.’ This is flat false from Vance.

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore funds for programs that provides legal services to unaccompanied minors children in immigration proceedings.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE FROM EVERY DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE. Thank you, Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury

THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE FROM EVERY DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE. Thank you, Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury

REPORTER: Are you considering revoking the TPS status for the more than 20,000 Ukrainians who live here in the US?

TRUMP: What are you saying?

REPORTER: TPS status.

TRUMP: On GPS?

Treasury Secretary Bessent says the American dream is not about 'access to cheap goods' Bessent on Thursday offered a full-throated defense of the White House's position on tariffs.

yep, good luck with that, jack www.cnbc.com/2025/03/06/t...

UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from th...

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

The bestest use for ai

Scotten: awarded two Bronze Stars as troop commander, Fifth Special Forces Group in Iraq; awarded the prestigious Fay Diploma from Harvard Law for the graduate with the highest grades; mbr of Harvard Law Review; clerked for CJ Roberts, etc.

Snip of CNN article showing the biggest advertisers on X.

I would suggest actively boycotting the companies who are the biggest advertisers on X. Elon has a big debt held by several big banks that he is paying 11% on. If he loses advertisers the banks will get the jitters. Rich people need credit to get richer. Stop buying from these and write to their CEO

As the meeting approached, Melania consulted with director Brett Ratner on how to sell her idea to the world's third- richest man. Melania regaled Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, with the project's details at dinner. Just over two weeks later, Amazon, a company that prides itself on frugality and sharp negotiating, agreed to pay $40 million to license the film-the most Amazon had ever spent on a documentary and nearly three times the next-closest offer.

Netflix and Apple declined even to bid. Paramount made a lowball $4 million distribution-rights offer. Disney DIS +0.33% A , the most interested studio besides Amazon, offered $14 million. "We licensed the upcoming Melania Trump documentary film and series for one reason and one reason only-because we think customers are going to love it," said an Amazon spokesman. The first lady's cut is more than 70% of the $40 million, according to people familiar with the matter. And they're still looking for more: Melania's agent has been trying to sell "sponsorships" for the film-starting at $10 million-to prominent CEOs and billionaires who were at the inauguration, according to people familiar with the matter. Buyers would get thanked at the end of the credits and be invited to the premiere.

After Melania personally pitched her personal documentary to Bezos last December, Amazon paid $40MM —almost 3X what Disney offered.

And now she’s hawking “sponsorships” to the film, for $10MM each.

Makes the old Trump hotel in DC look like chump change.

Gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

I wouldn’t celebrate my new position by getting burgers with a thrice convicted pedophile, but I’m just different i guess.

excerpt from an FT column Among all these vectors, one of the weirdest and most disturbing developments is the rise of the “neo-reactionary movement” (NRx), also called Dark Enlightenment. The name alone is spooky and intriguing. NRx is an ideology founded by the British philosopher Nick Land and the American software developer Curtis Yarvin (who was recently interviewed in the New York Times). The philosophy argues that democracy inherently leads to social decline, because of the development of deep state bureaucracies that are unable to control oligarchic forces, and that societies should be run like corporations, with a kind of CEO Monarch in charge. As Yarvin has said, “If Americans want to change their government, they need to get rid of dictator phobia . . . One way of dealing with that is . . . hire two executives and make sure they work together and there is really no other solution . . . ” Are Trump and Musk those people? Some think so. Between Trump’s 19th century-style tax, tariff and territorial-seizure threats, and Musk’s attempted takeover of the plumbing of the federal government (see my column today on why his Treasury meddling, which has been temporarily thwarted by a federal judge in the US, is so worrisome), it feels like there is a kind of self-coup happening in America right now. And some people I’ve spoken to in both political and technology circles feel that it’s been driven by the Dark Enlightenment crowd, which includes many of the people — from Peter Thiel to Marc Andreessen to Musk himself — who stand to benefit most from it. As Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir (which has seen its stock price surge off the back of a raft of expected government contracts) said recently: “This is a revolution . . . some people will get their heads cut off.”

the FT is the only one really reporting in any meaningful way that these guys are all nazis

Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.

wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

VA dismisses more than 1,000 employees - VA News WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees.

U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs confirms it has dismissed more than 1,000 employees

A once unthinkable concept for an agency that operates 100+ major hospitals and many hundreds more clinics

And processes veterans benefits

news.va.gov/press-room/v...

YouTube video by Katie Couric “Democracy Is Fragile” and Trump’s Threat to Us All, With Heather Cox Richardson

Thank you @katiecouric.bsky.social
And @hcrichardson.bsky.social